At 22:33 on January 9, Beijing time, the 5th match of the first round of the 2024 Snooker Masters continued.
With three consecutive whips and two 50+ performances in the first half, Brother Yu led 3-1 into the halftime break.
Half-time comes back and the game continues.
In the 5th game, Brother Yu nudged the red ball in the pocket and did not enter the bag, and Xiaote did not score in the middle pocket of the attack. Xiaote defended the leaky ball, and Brother Yu scored a red ball on the long platform, and at 8 points, under the influence of Hou Snow, he scored a red ball with a low stroke, and at 9 minutes, he did not hit a color ball and was punished with 4 points. Subsequently, Brother Yi defended the leaky ball, and the small long platform attacked, scoring a black ball at 13 minutes, a red ball at 20 minutes, and the cue ball was out of position, and defended after 21 points. Brother Ao's long platform attack on the side library red ball does not go into the big leak. Xiaote picked up the leakage attack again, scored a black ball at 36 minutes, scored a red ball at 51 minutes, scored a red ball at 65 minutes, scored a pink ball K out of the side library two red balls at 74 minutes, and began to collect color at 95 minutes, and won again with 122 points in Qingtai, 101 points in a single stroke. With a big score, Brother Yu led 3-2.
In the 6th game, Brother Yu leaked the ball at the beginning, Xiaote attacked and started, scored the red ball in the pocket at 8 minutes, and knocked over the bag at 14 minutes. Both sides put together to defend. Brother Yu defended a shot of snooker, and Xiao Te's first shot hit the pink ball first and was penalized with 6 points. Xiaote scored the red ball in the pocket, and lost the blue ball to keep the bag. Brother Yu attacked the bottom pocket, scored a black ball at 14 minutes, and scored a yellow ball K goal at 22 minutes, which was not effective, and defended after 24 points. Little Te defends the cue ball and falls into the bag. Xiaote defended the leaky ball, and Brother Yu scored a red ball on the long platform and lost a black ball, 29 points. Xiaote attacked, scored a red ball at 23 minutes, scored a red ball K ball at 39 minutes, scored a red ball at 55 minutes, scored the last red ball at 70 minutes, won again with 98 points, and won with a single stroke of 84 points. Xiao Te won 3 games in a row and equalized the big score, 3-3.
In the 7th game, the two sides fought to defend at the beginning. Brother Yu started attacking on the long platform, scoring a black ball at 5 minutes, scoring a blue ball at 13 minutes, scoring a blue ball at 18 minutes, scoring a blue ball at 32 minutes, attacking around the blue ball, and losing the red ball bottom pocket at 43 minutes. Xiaote attacked, scored the red ball in the side library at 4 minutes, scored the blue ball K out of the bottom library red ball at 11 minutes, scored the black ball bottom bag at 24 minutes, scored the black ball K ball at 33 points, and the effect was poor, and the defense shot was 40 points. The two sides continued to fight defensively. Brother Yu scored a red ball on the long platform, scored a blue ball at 44 minutes, and the cue ball called the last red ball of Bianku, which was lost, 49 points. Xiaote scored a yellow ball and used the black ball to make a snooker, and Brother Yu solved the missed ball. Smaller scored a yellow goal and lost a green goal, 43 points. Brother Yu hit 3 shots in a row and dropped 12 points. Xiaote scored a green ball, 58 points, and lost a pink ball at 67 points, exceeding 4 points. Brother Yu didn't give up, he wanted to be snooker, but he had no choice but to admit defeat when the cue ball fell into the bag. Xiaote overscored and led 4-3.
In the 8th game, Xiaote took the lead in scoring a red ball and interrupted. Both sides fight defensively. Brother Yu scored a red ball defense on the long platform. Xiao Te is fined 4 points for a short shot. Xiao Te scored the pink ball after scoring the red ball in the pocket, scored the red ball at 8 minutes, scored the red ball K ball at 22 minutes, and had no K chance, and beat the pink ball to death after 23 points. The spherical shape is rigid. After scoring the red ball on the long platform, he scored the coffee ball, and defended after scoring the red ball at 10 minutes. The small special defense cue ball hangs in the pocket and the corner of the bag changes the course of movement. Brother Yu scored a green ball after scoring a red ball, scored a red ball K out of the side library pink ball after 15 minutes, and lost a red ball at 24 minutes. Xiaote started to attack, and after scoring a red ball in the side library at 28 minutes, he scored a coffee goal, and it was interrupted after 33 minutes. Brother Yi defended the leaky ball, Xiaote picked up the leak and attacked again, and defended after scoring the last red ball in the bottom library at 37 minutes. Brother Yi's defense leaked the ball, and Xiaote did not score the yellow ball in the attack. Brother Yu defended a shot of snooker, and Xiao Te's ball hit the coffee ball first. Brother Yu scored a yellow ball and defended after 30 points. Brother Yu defended a shot of snooker, and Xiaote was penalized 4 points for a short shot. Brother Yu defended snooker again, and Xiaote shot another shot. Brother Yu defends the cue ball and smashes the bag. Xiao Te scored 49 points in the green ball coffee ball and 54 points in the blue ball, more than 3 points. Te scored a pink ball to win. Xiaote played 5 consecutive whips, led 5-3 and took the lead in the first place.
In the 9th game, Xiaote missed the ball at the beginning, and Brother Yu scored a red ball on the long platform, and lost the red ball after 4 points, and it was a big leak. Xiaote picked up the leak and started attacking, scoring a red ball and a black ball at 14 points, and defending after 29 points. Subsequently, the small long table scored a red ball, and the cue ball was pasted behind the coffee ball to make a snooker, and the two libraries were solved. Smaller scored the dribble and lost the red ball at 35 minutes. Brother Yu scored on the long platform and defended after 14 points. Subsequently, Brother Yu attacked again, and it was interrupted after 20 points. The small special attack did not score. Brother Yu scored 21 points on the long platform of the red ball, and defended a shot of snooker. Xiao Te's first untie of the cue ball fell into the bag, and the second shot was missed. Brother Yu chose to attack by himself, scoring the last red ball at 45 minutes and losing the coffee ball at 58 minutes, exceeding 1 point. Xiao Te scored a blue goal, 44 points. Brother Yi scored a pink ball and scored 64 points to pull back a game. With a big score, Xiaote led 5-4.
In the 10th game, Xiao Te scored a red ball and then broke off, 1 point. Brother Yu attacked, and lost the red ball after 8 points. Xiaote's offensive opportunity was interrupted after 53 points. Brother Yu attacked on the long platform and equalized the score with 66 points. Big score, 5-5.
In the final game, Xiaote missed a shot and was penalized 4 points. Brother Yu attacked and scored 55 points in the red ball and did not score. Xiaote attacked, clearing the table with 65 points and reversing.
Xiaote narrowly defeated Brother Yu 6-5 to advance to the top 8.
In the four games that have ended, England's local players Jack Lisowski, Shaun Murphy, Ronnie O'Sullivan, and Ali Carter defeated their respective opponents respectively and advanced to the top 8.